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collecting some thoughts as they travel the world as a watson fellow. my project takes me to communities in Seoul, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Aotearoa, and Varanasi. as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly entwined with human experiences, we must confront the limitations of its agency. i’ll be working with these communities to build AIs that serve their needs…
In the works: ‘dr. disdain’
consider the ‘i’ in blog posts a fictional persona… like how people can rap about stuff they didn’t really do <3
inked on page 278.5 of some book i eventually gifted
LAST NIGHT I DREAMt I was at school again getting ready for a rave with my girls. But it was hailing bombs outside and the dance floor is peppered with bullets keeping staccato tempo for bodies falling in time. I remember waiting at the door.…
i landed in são paulo and *boy* does time move different
i landed in são paulo and *boy* does time move different time in europe is always slipping away. always chasing always being chased. i did not float but rush. it was winter when i left. i got used to the cold and could bare my…
the non-caterpillar non-butterfly filling a cocoon is liquid.
the non-caterpillar non-butterfly filling a cocoon is liquid. a caterpillar, once wrapped in a cocoon, will begin to self-digest releasing enzymes that turn it into liquid. in this formless soup, there are cells called imaginal discs that contain the way of the butterfly in them.…
trees grow out, storms grow down
another dream… Clouds are conductors of storms. Trees grow out, Storms grow down. I watch my mommy sleep propped up face shadowed by the light of her iPad mini blasting the k-drama castaway baby in a language i do not know except for its shape…
vogue dreams of her conception
CONTENT WARNING: sexual assault. like most of my dreams there are mentions and scenes of rape Jobs taken under the constant cool of ac replacing whatever stale air can accumulate let’s Vogue stay calculating. Air alone is not the only thing changing moment to moment…
magic pulled me into a shop
CONTENT WARNING: i had this dream of a memory i forgot sometime ago… like most of my dreams there is sexual assault and mention of rape magic pulled me into a shop. i walked by first then floated in. when the door shut behind me…
paris is purring | part 1
i wake up feeling like shit. so i decide to do what any other sane faggot would do in my situation: go to a ball***. (*** By ball I do not mean ballroom, which is a very specific and important scene of black queer culture…
seoul bent the knee
i can feel it about to rain. is this the korean monsoon season? its really not as bad as that one seoulite from school described it. i thought the train stations would be flooding and walking would be battling through unrelenting sheets of water. i…
I don’t look (south) korean
i don’t look (south) korean. after breezing through customs with only a couple bows and not a single word exchanged, i get my train ticket and takeoff to seoul. there are five people on the train with me, and every one of them has porcelain…
stuck in atl | leaving home part 2
the first thing i did when i realized all hotel rooms in atlanta were booked out was find a plug. i looked up from an endless screen of sold out motels to a yellow vested guy sat scrolling through his phone. ‘are you from atlanta?’…
